Villagers Group – Dallington Parish Website

Village Hall Events November 2021

(Using a different format for listings as the table used for the last two months doesn’t display correctly in email alerts)

We now have a Village Hall Bookings Calendar at https://dallington.org.uk/village-hall/village-hall-booking/ where you can see forthcoming events. Here’s a summary:

Monday 1st November and every Monday:
Art Club 10-12 and Library Cafe 2-4pm
Friday 5th November and every Friday
Chair Yoga 11-12 (limited places please email charlotte@living-yoga.co.uk or call 07367 757124)
Saturday 6th November (and first Saturday of every month)
Library Cafe 10-12
Tuesday 16th November Parish Council 7.30pm
Thursday 18th November Villagers Group 2-4pm

Village Hall News update & September 2021 Events

As most of you know, we were finally able to reopen the hall towards the end of July after prolonged closure due to Covid. Our regular weekly activities – art club and the library café – have resumed and it’s been a joy to see old friends meeting up for the first time in over a year. The monthly Villagers group normally takes place on a Thursday afternoon, but this month hosted an entertaining evening talk open to all, about Vivien Drake, a former Dallington resident with theatrical connections. Another well attended talk took place in August on the wartime history of Dallington Forest and other woodlands, and as you can see we have a full programme lined up for September.

Events in September
(Please note no Art Club or Library Café on Bank Holiday Monday 30^th August)

Saturday	4th	10-12	Library Cafe
Monday	6th	10-12	Art Club
Monday	6th	2-4	Library Cafe
Thursday	9th	2-4	Villagers Group Games afternoon
Friday	10th	11-12	Chair Yoga New weekly beginners course, starts 10th September More details at https://www.living-yoga.co.uk/classes
Monday	13th	10-12	Art Club
Monday	13th	2-4	Library Cafe
Friday	17th	11-12	Chair Yoga
Friday	17th	7-9	QUIZ NIGHT 7pm start Entry £5 to include refreshments (bring your own wine)
Monday	20th	10-12	Art Club
Monday	20th	2-4	Library Cafe
Friday	24th	11-12	Chair Yoga
Monday	27th	10-12	Art Club
Monday	27th	2-4	Library Cafe

Please note that we are retaining some precautions to keep the hall ‘covid safe’, including provision of hand sanitiser, extra ventilation and limiting numbers for each event.

In order to encourage more people to come forward with new ideas, the Management Committee have agreed to use some grant money to enable us to waive hall hire fees until the end of the year for groups or one-off events that are of potential interest and benefit to the community as a whole. Please get in touch with the booking secretary Karen Gillingham on 01435 831563 if you are interested in booking the hall.

Talk Thursday 19th August 2021

“Dallington, Vivien Drake and some of the stars of yesteryear”

Thursday 19th August at 7.00 pm in Dallington Old School Village Hall

Laura Vakil and Tim Lord will be sharing memories, music and stories of Dallington in the postwar years. Laura’s grandmother Vivien Drake, who lived at Pantons in The Street following a career on the London stage, had numerous theatrical visitors and was an active member of the Dallington Amateur Dramatic Society. Free entry. Refreshments available. Everyone welcome.

Village Hall re-opening soon!

We are finally reopening! After many months of waiting for national restrictions to be lifted, we can finally announce (fingers crossed) that Dallington Old School Village Hall will re-open for bookings from Monday July 19^th. (All booking enquiries to Karen Gillingham on 01435 831563.) Continue reading “Village Hall re-opening soon!”

March 2020 events in Dallington

(from Bobbie Steel)

St Giles Church services in March
- Sunday March 1st 11am. Service of The Word
- Sunday March 8th. 6.30pm. Evensong
- Sunday March 15th 11am. Holy Communion
- Sunday March 22nd 9.30am. Holy Communion
- Sunday March 29th. 11am. Service of The Word

Library Cafe Saturday March 7th from 10-12 and every Monday afternoon from 2-4. Books, refreshments, friendly company.
Art Club (weekly) Monday mornings from 10-12
Book Club (monthly) Monday March 9th 4-5pm
History Group There will be meetings of the History Group on
March 10th (Doug Edworthy on the history of Dallington Forest) and
March 24th (Pauline Ridley on Dallington Reading Room 100 years ago)
All at 7 for 7.30pm in Dallington Old School Village Hall.
Poetry Group (monthly) Monday March 16th 4-5pm
Villagers Group (monthly) The Dallington Village Group will meet on Thursday March 19th at 7pm in the hall. (Please note the change of time). The subject will be ‘Who’s done that?’